JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aired new grievances Sunday over the Biden administration‘s provide of munitions for the warfare within the Gaza Strip as his minister of defence arrived in Washington for conferences with senior US officers.
Some Israeli information shops had portrayed the go to by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, though preplanned, as a “reconciliation” journey geared toward smoothing latest tensions with the nation’s most vital ally.Netanyahu’s govt and the Biden administration have been more and more at odds over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and Netanyahu lashed out at the USA final week for withholding munitions.
However Sunday morning, Netanyahu doubled down. In remarks broadcast in Hebrew earlier than his weekly Cupboard assembly in Jerusalem, Netanyahu mentioned he appreciated the Biden administration’s help for Israel by means of eight months of warfare, “however beginning 4 months in the past, there was a dramatic lower within the provide of armaments.” “For lengthy weeks, we turned to our American pals and requested that the shipments be expedited. We did that point after time,” Netanyahu mentioned.
There was no speedy remark from the Biden administration in regards to the remarks, which might upstage Gallant in Washington. They arrive simply days after Netanyahu launched a combative video, in English, excoriating the Biden administration for, because the Israeli chief put it, withholding weapons and ammunition when Israel was “combating for its life” in opposition to Iran and different widespread enemies.
US officers mentioned on the time that they discovered the video “perplexing” and didn’t know what Netanyahu was speaking about. Whereas the Israeli prime minister complained of “bottlenecks”, the Biden administration maintained that it had held up just one cargo of two,000-pound bombs over issues about their use in densely populated elements of Gaza.
Yuli Edelstein, a Likud lawmaker and chair of the Israeli Parliament’s overseas affairs and defence committee, mentioned Saturday that variations of opinion with the US shouldn’t be dealt with “through video clips.” Netanyahu on Sunday defended his actions, saying he went public primarily based on “years of expertise and the information that this step was important to opening the bottleneck.”
Some Israeli information shops had portrayed the go to by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, though preplanned, as a “reconciliation” journey geared toward smoothing latest tensions with the nation’s most vital ally.Netanyahu’s govt and the Biden administration have been more and more at odds over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and Netanyahu lashed out at the USA final week for withholding munitions.
However Sunday morning, Netanyahu doubled down. In remarks broadcast in Hebrew earlier than his weekly Cupboard assembly in Jerusalem, Netanyahu mentioned he appreciated the Biden administration’s help for Israel by means of eight months of warfare, “however beginning 4 months in the past, there was a dramatic lower within the provide of armaments.” “For lengthy weeks, we turned to our American pals and requested that the shipments be expedited. We did that point after time,” Netanyahu mentioned.
There was no speedy remark from the Biden administration in regards to the remarks, which might upstage Gallant in Washington. They arrive simply days after Netanyahu launched a combative video, in English, excoriating the Biden administration for, because the Israeli chief put it, withholding weapons and ammunition when Israel was “combating for its life” in opposition to Iran and different widespread enemies.
US officers mentioned on the time that they discovered the video “perplexing” and didn’t know what Netanyahu was speaking about. Whereas the Israeli prime minister complained of “bottlenecks”, the Biden administration maintained that it had held up just one cargo of two,000-pound bombs over issues about their use in densely populated elements of Gaza.
Yuli Edelstein, a Likud lawmaker and chair of the Israeli Parliament’s overseas affairs and defence committee, mentioned Saturday that variations of opinion with the US shouldn’t be dealt with “through video clips.” Netanyahu on Sunday defended his actions, saying he went public primarily based on “years of expertise and the information that this step was important to opening the bottleneck.”
